Why not both?

That can be said of most narcotics

99.999% of caffeine users stop before the drink that will cure all their mental illnesses forever and ever and ever.

More espresso, less depresso.

I LOVE DRUGS

(I JUST HAD COFFEE IM SO HYPED HOMIE)

Where I was raised there wasn't a taboo over coffee as a "drink for adults" (something that I learned from American movies and found quite funny). When I was a kid I'd drink coffee with milk because I didn't care much about coffee, but nobody would bat an eye if I did... I also never understood that thing about people drinking coffee and getting energized. From what I learned, American-style coffee has about half the caffeine of the regular coffee we have here (Brazil), and not rarely I have coffee with bread or cookies before bed (if I didn't have dinner and I'm feeling too lazy to make something). It doesn't affect my sleep in the least and I never felt the least energized with coffee. I always thought this thing about caffeine getting you high was a joke from movies, but people in real life do seem to claim it :S (well, I do remember teens smoking oregano thinking it was pot and claiming to be high as well...)

ps: Nope, I'm not addicted to coffee. The regular breakfast here is coffee with bread and butter, but most of the time I don't have breakfast before leaving so I don't drink any coffee the whole day, and I go weeks without drinking it. If it isn't to have coffee with bread, cookies or biscuits, I don't have coffee at all.

Eventually?!

You mean it moves to an addiction?

And, following that, a laxative

I had a similar thought to this the other day. For nearly my entire adulthood working, something around 15 years, not a single day has passed where I have explicitly recall NOT having coffee.

Addiction is real. 😬

I really hope I can avoid that, haven't fallen into it yet.

Anything you regularly enjoy becomes an emotional support.

Interestingly, many skip that first step. Iirc, it's about 30% who don't get more awake but rather start to relax under caffeine. About the same % who also need to poop right after, but not the same people. Lol

Hmm. Im gotta go choose wisely then..

I call coffee 'care coffee'. Because I don't care about anything until I have some xD